Kate is a Senior Associate in Lander & Rogers' Insurance Law & Litigation team. She enjoys a broad and varied practice, working across both the financial lines and construction and engineering practices.
Kate has considerable experience in contentious and complex litigation, having regularly acted as defence counsel in matters concerning construction, engineering, financial, legal and a range of other professionals. She also has experience acting as defence counsel in disciplinary proceedings.
Kate has extensive trial and advocacy experience and is adept at managing high value and multi-party complex litigation.
Experience
Kate has acted for lawyers, barristers, financial advisors, accountants, property developers and asset managers, engineers (geotechnical, structural & civil), architects, surveyors and other professionals across a myriad of disputes. She is regularly commended for her pragmatic and strategic advice.
While Kate's primary focus is as defence counsel, she also has experience acting as coverage counsel. Kate is often retained to advise on coverage generally, and also to advise on policy interpretation, application of exclusion clauses, compliance with conditions, dual insurance and subrogated recoveries.
Kate's areas of expertise include:
- financial lines, including professional indemnity and management liability
- public and product liability, including third-party property damage
- policy response
- commercial litigation and dispute resolution.
Career highlights
Kate's career highlights include:
- acting for various project consultants in claims involving combustible cladding
- advising insurers of a joint venture of two significant engineering firms in relation to a claim received on a large infrastructure project
- acting in respect of claims arising from large infrastructure projects
- defending a claim made against a geotechnical consultant in relation to advice it provided during the construction of a large residential development
- defending disciplinary proceedings brought against a range of legal and financial professionals
- defending a significant misleading or deceptive conduct claim against an asset manager regarding the sale of a sizeable commercial property advising and defending a disability support provider in relation to coronial inquest proceedings concerning a death in care.